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Ancient Wine : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGovern, Patrick E., Author.
- Series:
- Princeton science library.
- Princeton Science Library ; 76
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making--Middle East--History.
- Wine and wine making.
- Viticulture--Middle East--History.
- Viticulture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which extends back into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Ancient Wine opens up whole new chapters in the fascinating story of wine by drawing on recent archaeological discoveries, molecular and DNA sleuthing, and the writings and art of ancient peoples. In a new afterword, the author discusses exciting recent developments in the understanding of ancient wine, including a new theory of how viniculture came to central and northern Europe.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine
- CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis
- CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine
- CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine!
- CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs
- CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age
- CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World's First Cities
- CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East
- CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land's Bounty
- CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia
- CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World
- CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future
- Afterword
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS AND OBJECT DIMENSIONS
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780691198965
- 0691198969
- OCLC:
- 1112421355
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